Rose plant

Abstract

A new hardy variety of hybrid grandiflora rose plant, of the outdoor, bush type, having a strong citrus fragrance and blooming abundantly almost throughout the growing season. Blooms are borne sometimes singly but usually three to five on a stem, and display color effects predominantly of off-white, suffusing to yellow-green. Flowers range from 3 to 31/2 inches across, with from 25 to 30 petals, plus 0 to 5 petaloids.

We claim: 
     
       1. A new and distinct variety of rose plant of the hybrid grandiflora class, substantially as herein shown and described, being further especially characterized in the vigor of its growth habit, being much branched, and clothed in semi-glossy relatively disease-resistant foliage, the flowers being off-white in coloration, well-formed, and of a strong citrus fragrance.